Pauline Marois and Pierre Bruneau

Pierre Bruneau: Pauline Marois didnt touch it with a 10-foot pole, of course. But neither did the other three leaders, even while spending a great deal of time on the topic, according to The Star. Such sentiments are very much connected to the charter. The poll showed that those who like the charter also do not like immigrants and minorities and An important question went unanswered Thursday night in the Quebec elections second televised leaders debate. Opening the segment on the infamous charter of Quebec values, host Pierre Bruneau noted that more than half of Quebecers hold a negative opinion of Muslims and Jews. Was that not one of the pernicious effects of the deep divisions unleashed by the Parti Quebecois governments bill to ban religious symbols in the public sector? Bruneau was referring to a poll showing that 57 per cent of Quebecers do not like Muslims and 56 per cent do not like Hasidic Jews. Besides exposing the level of bigotry, the finding was instructive in another way: whereas the pollster and the respondents could separate out the Hasidim from the orthodox, conservative and reform Jews, both thought of all Muslims conservative, liberal, non-observant as one big evil collective. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.